Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer won the Vogel Award for her first novel, Mood Indigo, two weeks after this interview took place. She has since published five works of fiction, and six works of non-fiction, including Dreamtime Alice, winner of the 2000 National Biography Award and Australian Audio Book of the Year;Velocity, winner of the 2007 of the South Australian Premiers Award for Non-Fiction and The Age Book of the Year for Non-Fiction; and The Poet's Wife, shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Award. Her most recent book is Misfits & Me: Collected Non-Fiction. Photo: Tanya Lake.

Works By Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer interviews Helen Garner, 1989
'Thirty years ago I wrote to Helen Garner, via her publisher, and asked if I could interview her.'
12 Mar. 2019

Works Featuring Mandy Sayer

Gaslighting: The Poet’s Wife by Mandy Sayer
‘Our marriage wasn’t always unhappy’: so begins this ‘memoir of a marriage’ between Australian writer Mandy Sayer and her first husband, the Afro-American poet Yusef Komunyakaa. What follows is the chronicle of a deeply troubled relationship from
15 Apr. 2014

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Mandy Sayer

Works By Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer interviews Helen Garner, 1989

Works Featuring Mandy Sayer

Gaslighting: The Poet’s Wife by Mandy Sayer